Interesting Facts About America

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Pizza is one of the most favorite food of Americans and it is not shocking that 100 acres of pizza is served in U.S. every day.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

The U.S. invented and developed nuclear weapons, and the first two bombs were used on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII.

George Washington had a phobia of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was really dead.

When America was founded in 1776, the population was 2.5 million people. Now it is 319 million.

The US is the 4th largest country in the world by land area and 3rd by population.

There are 50 states in the U.S., and among them HAWAII is the most recent. It joined the list in 1959 and it is the only one state which is made up fully of islands. ALASKA is the largest state in U.S. by land area and it was purchased from Russia for just $7.2 million in 1867.

1 out of every 8 workers in the U.S. has been at one time or other employed by McDonalds.

Smoking is attributed for one death every 5 minutes in the US.

Americans collectively eat 100 pounds of chocolate every second.

The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 truck drivers with college degrees.

The cost of college textbooks have risen faster than health-care products or housing for students.

Most of the people in America are Christians. But Christmas celebration wasn't popular in U.S. until 1836, because December 25th was an Ancient Roman Pagan Holiday.

Though the common language in the United States is known as American English, it doesn't have an official language like most countries.

The late President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was not removed from the U.S. terror watch list until 2008. Mandela died in 2013.

Almost the half of the world’s credit card frauds happen in the U.S.

The poorest people in U.S. live in Allen, South Dakota, where 96% are native American.

The Afghan war is the longest war in American history. And more U.S. soldiers commit suicide than those who are killed Combat.

Aside from Ronald Reagan, no other U.S. president has been elected if he was divorced. There 100 divorces in the U.S every hour.

40% of all births in the U.S. come from unmarried women. Valentines Day is also national condom day in the U.S.

One of the most shocking facts is, that 97% of rapists in the U.S. never spend a day in jail for their crime. And in 31 states, rapists can legally sue for child custody if the rape results in Pregnancy.

More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.